Spot on, Newbie and Old Timer. Spot on.
It was depressing to read through code snippets that showed outright manipulation of the data, all in the name of ‘homogenizing’ it. Also insightful was the read of the documentation that read as a lamentation of the data set, the code base, and the manipulations that were applied to produce the desired results.
Sadly, while all of science will take a hit if it does not clean its house out, politically-safe AGW will likely trundle on. Sadly, there’s just too much money at stake to allow truth, or common sense, to win out.
Unless scientists of all stripes speak out against this, they will all be treated with the same (justified) derision.
Pat
